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Memorandum dated 12 April 1951, recording the visit of Taoiseach John A. Costello to President Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh, advising the President that Dr. Noel Browne, Minister for Health, wished to tender this resignation as a member of the government and that it should be accepted.

It is then noted that Dr. Browne visited the President to inform him that he had tendered his resignation ‘but as the whole story was contained in correspondence which would be issued immediately he did not think it necessary to go into details’.
(NAI, Office of the Secretary to the President, PRES 1/P 4633)